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Sunday, July 23, 2017

Internet Marketing

“知己知彼，百战不殆” – 孙子“Know yourself and know your enemy and a hundred battles would not even begin”– Sun ZiThis is a commonly misunderstood quote by the great strategist, Sun Zi. Many business owners and marketers have understood this as advice to know your enemy. As a result, great effort has been spent on knowing the competitors of the company. On the contrary, the emphasis in this quote is given to knowing yourself first. When you know yourself, you will know your strengths and the options that you have available. So where do you start as an internet marketer? It starts with knowing yourself. What are your dreams? You may have forgotten or shelved your childhood dreams and ambitions. These dreams and ambitions can give you some insight about yourself. When I was growing up, I used to play computer games like Theme Hospital, SimCity 3000 and Roller Coaster Tycoon. All these games were similar as it involved building a system, letting it run and achieving the objective of the game. Even when I played war strategy games like 'Command and Conquer', I was more interested in building up my base and fortifying it rather than destroying the enemy in a short and decisive skirmish. This gave me an understanding of myself. It helped me to understand that I like building systems and observing how the system runs by itself to achieve the objectives.

Today, my line of work is similar. I get to build Google advertising campaigns for my clients and subsequently, observe how my campaigns generate sales leads. With the data that is generated from the ad campaigns, I would optimize the campaigns and further enhance the performance of the campaigns to increase the number of sales leads generated.
Knowing your interest can give you clues about where you can start. For many people, faith is an integral part of their lives. For me, my Christian faith is a large part of my life. I love Jesus and I love getting to know Him better. This sometimes involved reading books about how people have experienced the love of Jesus and other books about how people have received physical healingfrom Jesus.Because of my interest in Christianity, I chose this as my niche when I first started out with affiliate marketing. I created a website where I wrote about Christianity and wrote reviews about the Christian books that I read. I also included Amazon links to those books so that my readers could buy those items from Amazon using my affiliate link. When a purchase was made usingmy affiliate link, I would earn a commission from Amazon for promoting the sale of the item.Your interests can give you clues to the niches that you can choose. For example, if you’re a body builder, you can start a website and a YouTube channel about bodybuilding. You can talk about the common mistakes that people make and what they should do to build the body that they want. Along the way, you can promote products that they can use to help them to achieve their goals. You can get these products from various sources. You can look at affiliate programmes with fitness products and training programmes. Or you can buy these products and sell them using an e-commerce site or on Amazon and eBay. Or you might be able to find a multi-level marketing programme with good nutrition products that you can promote using your website and your YouTube channel. There are many options that you can explore and I amsure that you will enjoy the process. What are your strengths?Knowing your strengths can help to give you some direction in your internet marketing career too. Through my years in school, I knew that I am good with numbers. I practiced many math questions and I would know intuitively if asolution is calculated wrongly.Currently, as an owner of a Google Advertising Agency, my work involves numbers. Google advertising generates many statistics that are not personally identifiable. These collated statistics allows me to know which of my ads are working well and which are not. The numbers give me insights to improve on the ads and increase the sales leads generated from the ads.Take 10 minutes now to do some reflection about yourself and answer these 3 questions:1. What are your dreams?2. What are your interests?3. What are your strengths?Try to list 5 answers for each of the above questions. Remember, there are no right or wrong answers. The whole objective of doing this exercise is to know yourself better and to give you clues about what you can do in your internet marketing career.Next, make a small investment in yourself by doing this marketing “personalitytest”. I don’t make any affiliate commissions by recommending this test to you. I have however, taken this test and I found it useful in understanding my marketing preferences. It also helped me to understand the marketing preferences of my team mates and this helped us in allocating work within the agency.I believe that you will find your personality test result to be useful as well. This test will reveal some of the marketing activities that you should pursue and those that you should avoid. To take the marketing “personality test”, visit:www.marketingDNAtest.comFinally, I want to encourage you to start somewhere. We do sometimes fall into analysis paralysis and over analyse things. Don’t be afraid to start. When you start doing something, you will learn from the experience and you’ll know yourself better. If you keep analyzing your options, you might find yourself thinking in circles and you may never conclude. You’ll never know if you never try.So, take a step and start trying something. When you start doing something related to internet marketing, give yourself some time to get good at it.Everyone needs some time to get good at a skill before you start making money out of it. If you need to make ends meet, it might be good to keep a day job or a part time job to help make ends meet while you work on your internet marketing skills. When your skills are creating enough value for you to be paying your expenses with your earnings from internet marketing, it’ll be a good time for you to consider if you still want to keep your day job or your parttime job. This journey will allow you to know yourself better and to grow in the process. Remember to have fun and enjoy the journey!Ye FudaCEO and Founder of Midas SEMLearn to attract your first customerA Customized Communication Profile for Sales & Marketing Professionals"Can Your Marketing and Selling Become Easier, Less Tedious, Less Frustrating and More Rewarding? 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